Localized Hypermutation is the Major Driver of Meningococcal Genetic Variability during Persistent Asymptomatic Carriage

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Phasome analysis of pathogenic and commensal Neisseria species expands the known repertoire of phase variable genes, and highlights common adaptive strategies

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GrapeTree: visualization of core genomic relationships among 100,000 bacterial pathogens

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Microevolution of Neisseria lactamica during nasopharyngeal colonisation induced by controlled human infection

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Emerging clinical experience with vaccines against group B meningococcal disease

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Phase variation of DNA methyltransferases and the regulation of virulence and immune evasion in the pathogenic Neisseria

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Genomic Analysis of Serogroup YNeisseria meningitidisIsolates Reveals Extensive Similarities Between Carriage-Associated and Disease-Associated Organisms

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High multiple carriage and emergence of Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine serotype variants in Malawian children

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Targeted vaccination of teenagers following continued rapid endemic expansion of a single meningococcal group W clone (sequence type 11 clonal complex), United Kingdom 2015

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Selection for a CEACAM Receptor-Specific Binding Phenotype during Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infection of the Human Genital Tract

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Genome-Based Characterization of Emergent Invasive Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup Y Isolates in Sweden from 1995 to 2012

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Genomic epidemiology of age-associated meningococcal lineages in national surveillance: an observational cohort study

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The tortoise or the hare? Impacts of within-host dynamics on transmission success of arthropod-borne viruses

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Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

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Phase Variation Mediates Reductions in Expression of Surface Proteins during Persistent Meningococcal Carriage

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Emergence of a New Epidemic Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup A Clone in the African Meningitis Belt: High-Resolution Picture of Genomic Changes That Mediate Immune Evasion

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Allelic Variation in a Simple Sequence Repeat Element of Neisserial pglB2 and Its Consequences for Protein Expression and Protein Glycosylation

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Prevalence and Phase Variable Expression Status of Two Autotransporters, NalP and MspA, in Carriage and Disease Isolates of Neisseria meningitidis

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Transcription of a cis-acting, Noncoding, Small RNA Is Required for Pilin Antigenic Variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

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Whole Genome Sequencing to Investigate the Emergence of Clonal Complex 23 Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup Y Disease in the United States

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BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level

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Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

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Experimental Gonococcal Infection in Male Volunteers: Cumulative Experience with Neisseria gonorrhoeae Strains FA1090 and MS11mkC

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Genetic, Structural, and Antigenic Analyses of Glycan Diversity in the O-Linked Protein Glycosylation Systems of Human Neisseria Species

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Persistence, Replacement, and Rapid Clonal Expansion of Meningococcal Carriage Isolates in a 2008 University Student Cohort

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Meningococcal carriage by age: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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The phasevarion: phase variation of type III DNA methyltransferases controls coordinated switching in multiple genes

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IgA1 antibodies specific for outer membrane protein PorA modulate the interaction between Neisseria meningitidis and the epithelium

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Neisseria meningitidis Differentially Controls Host Cell Motility through PilC1 and PilC2 Components of Type IV Pili

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Meningococcal carriage and disease—Population biology and evolution

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Phasevarions Mediate Random Switching of Gene Expression in Pathogenic Neisseria

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Relative Contributions of Recombination and Mutation to the Diversification of the opa Gene Repertoire of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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